The ten-year photo thing is going around again which gave me a good excuse to go through old photos on Facebook and re-live fun memories. I chose this photo mostly because it was easy to re-create in the moment, and I loved that shirt. on the left, a photo of me from October 2009. on the right, a ph...
Month: November 2019
“@cheukting_ho talking about @optoutsocial, the abusive language trends online and how to help avoid having a feed full of abusive language”
Say yes to RSS
Thanks for the head’s up. Comments fixed on my site. Will also be sure to include subtome.com in the follow-up “how to use a feed reader” post coming hopefully within a week.
I was going to reply there as well, Kiri, but I also feel that there should be no need to require yet another centralized platform for this action. So what if someone tells you that there is another kind to like, share or subscribe that can also make use of RSS but goes way beyond?
Great article btw. I also have some version that even Wayback Machine can no longer recover. I’ve a backup on CD but no reader want’s to read it any more – probably better this way 🤷
RSS not dead yet
The only way to beat social media algorithms is to get your audience off social media. Put your work on your own site. Retrain them to follow via RSS.
Writeup about #RSS and why we should keep using it:
https://kiriska.com/blog/2019/11/the-only-way-to-beat-algorithms-is-to-retrain-your-audience/
Hall Houses
“We're reinstating this 1580 #Suffolk #Longhouse at #Orchardbarn Expressions of interest in attending 2020 #traditional #timberframing #courses are now being taken - please email irene.orchardbarn@gmail.com #greenoak #heritageskills #CPD #vernacular #handtools #communityproject”
🤩 Please keep posting all the cool pictures. It’s the only way for me (here on the continent) to learn more about the awesome hall houses of Medieval England.
Container all the things
Internet must be in a really bad shape when the first extension recommended by Firefox is Facebook Container from Mozilla – way before the first adblocker shows up 😔
when uptime was a thing
It’s the small things. Like `htop` showing this exclamation mark with an uptime over 100 days. Back then a number of pride, nowadays [without live kernel patching] more a warning of all the skipped patches. #JustLinuxThings
Back when nuclear power stations were first proposed, we were promised "energy which is too cheap to meter". That is, the cost of electricity would be so low, invoicing for its use would be prohibitively expensive. Well, that didn't exactly turn out that way! But as our electronics have become more ...
Here’s a quick write-up of a minor XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerability on the website of Three.co.uk – one of the UK’s mobile providers. A brief recap… Most websites ha…
It’s kinda ironic that your code snipped exposed missing sanitation and escaping in my RSS aggregator and reader. Reported upstream xD